Modern American Women: A Documentary History

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A collection of primary source documents for the American women's history course, 'Modern American Women: A Documentary History' focuses on events and developments involving women from 1890 to the pre...

A collection of primary source documents for the American women's history course, 'Modern American Women: A Documentary History' focuses on events and developments involving women from 1890 to the present. New material includes documents on anti-lynching activism and Indian relocation, excerpts from 'The Vagina Monologues' by Eve Ensler, expanded chapters on 'Sexuality and the Body' and 'The State of the Movement for Women's Equality'. New part introductions provide historical context for and identify key themes that emerge from the documents in each of the book's three parts while headnotes, suggestions for further reading and photo essays supplement this already thorough and intimate look at women's history in the 20th century.

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3. Women at Work

The Burdens of Rural Women’s Lives;
Buffalobird Woman’s Story;
The Harsh Conditions of Domestic Service;
Female Perspectives on the Great Migration;
The Story of a Glove Maker (Agnes Nestor);
Working Women Write the Jewish Daily Forward

Suggestions for Further Reading

New Features

Introductions identify and provide a historical context for the key themes that emerge from the documents in each of the book's three parts.

Chapter 1 includes a new document by Ida Wells regarding anti-lynching activism.

New material on Indian relocation, written by Wilma Mankiller, is included in Chapter 9.

Chapter 12, which focuses on female sexuality and the female body, has been expanded to include excerpts from Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues".

The book's final chapter, which focuses on the state of the movement for women's equality, has been expanded.

Chapter openers provide a short, historical introduction to the impact and importance of each time period as well as a summary of key issues to be discussed and documented in the chapter's selections. These openers help students place documents in a historical context.

New authors include Katie Rolphe, Jennifer Baumgardner, and Amy Richards.

Key Features

Headnotes at the beginning of each piece provide historical context, biographical information about the author and present a strong basis for discussion for the instructor.

Suggestions for further readings conclude each part of the book.

Photo essays provide visual illustrations of the themes and issues in each part of the book. Lengthy captions further supplement this material.

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New Features

Introductions identify and provide a historical context for the key themes that emerge from the documents in each of the book's three parts.

Chapter 1 includes a new document by Ida Wells regarding anti-lynching activism.

New material on Indian relocation, written by Wilma Mankiller, is included in Chapter 9.

Chapter 12, which focuses on female sexuality and the female body, has been expanded to include excerpts from Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues".

The book's final chapter, which focuses on the state of the movement for women's equality, has been expanded.

Chapter openers provide a short, historical introduction to the impact and importance of each time period as well as a summary of key issues to be discussed and documented in the chapter's selections. These openers help students place documents in a historical context.

New authors include Katie Rolphe, Jennifer Baumgardner, and Amy Richards.

Key Features

Headnotes at the beginning of each piece provide historical context, biographical information about the author and present a strong basis for discussion for the instructor.

Suggestions for further readings conclude each part of the book.

Photo essays provide visual illustrations of the themes and issues in each part of the book. Lengthy captions further supplement this material.

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About the Authors

Susan
Ware

Susan Ware specializes in twentieth-century U.S. history and the history of American Women. The author of 'Still Missing: Amelia Earhart and the Search for Modern Feminism'(1993); 'Partner and I: Molly Dewson, Feminism, and New Deal Politics'(1987); Holding Their Own: American Women in the 1930s'(1982); and 'Beyond Suffrage: Women in the New Deal'(1981), Ware taught in the history department of New York University from 1986-1995 and served as an Honorary Visiting Scholar at the Schlesinger Library of Radcliffe College from 1996-1997. She is currently an independent scholar based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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